Former major league pitcher Anthony Varvaro, who left baseball to work as a police officer, was killed in a collision en route to work at a 9/11 memorial event in New York City, officials said.
Anthony Varvaro, then of the Boston Red Sox in a spring game against the Minnesota Twins in 2016, died Sunday on his way to work as a Port Authority police officer at a 9/11 ceremony in New York.
The agency said he was en route to an assignment at the day's World Trade Center ceremonies when a Toyota RAV4 going the wrong way on the New Jersey Turnpike Hudson Bay Extension East struck his vehicle at 4:25 a.m. near milepost 6.7. It wasn't clear why Plazas would have been driving in the wrong direction, and the cause of the collision was under investigation, police said.that the news was sorrowful. Varvaro played four of his roughly six seasons as a pro on its squad, the team said.His last major league home, the Boston Red Sox, said in a statement,"We are deeply saddened by the passing of former Red Sox pitcher Anthony Varvaro.